Mathematics majors at Manchester work individually with a faculty member on a Senior Project.  This provides the opportunity to study a topic in depth and present the results in a senior paper and an oral presentation.  The following students have worked with me on their senior project.

• Peter Dobberstein ('07) - "Compact Sets and Congressional Redistricting"
• Rachelle Steggerda ('07) - "Stigler's Diet Problem and the Development of Linear Programming"
• Jarred Jagger ('06) - "Matrix Methods for Rating Sports teams"
• Andrew Hodges ('04) - "Mathematics of DNA Sequencing"
• Oleg Ivashchenko ('04) - "Historical and Mathematical Development of the Black-Scholes Formula"
• Jennifer Kunkle ('99) - "Regression Models for Predicting Student Retention at Manchester College"
• Aaron Richardson ('98) - "Optimization Models for Airline Scheduling in the Hawaiian Islands"

• Oleg Ivashchenko ('04) - Honors Thesis "Historical and Mathematical Development of the Black-Scholes Formula"
• Laura Stone ('04) - "Learning Styles and English/Mathematics Preferences of M.C. Students"
• Andrew Hodges ('04) - Honors Thesis "Protein-Induced DNA Looping:  An Analysis of the ARA Operon"
• Heidi Gross ('02) and Rebekah Yoder ('02) - "Relationship of Race, Gender, Major and GPA at Manchester College"
• Ben Long ('02) and Justin Peterson ('05) - "Regression Models for Mathematics Placement at Manchester College"
• Andrew Hodges ('04) - "Inheritance Modeling Using Matrix Diagonalization"
• Nora Ditmars ('02) - "Prediction Models for the ACS Organic Chemistry Exam"
• Frederick Balagadde ('01) - "Theory and Applications of Cubic Splines"

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